I usually do not report the news of the day — it is impossible to understand the daily events except from the perspective of years. If one pays too much attention to the news of the morning, one is overwhelmed by meaningless noise. But today, a big change. Today the Russians took a bunch of …
Month: February 2024
How to do bitcoin in a country like India that has a locked down financial system
There are a few based Hindus on this blog, and they have been telling me they cannot do bitcoin, so cannot set up a blog securely. India has a locked down financial system and war on cash, which Indians are resisting by using gold, but you cannot do long distance transactions in gold. If you …
Thermidor is in power, Team B is now on top of Team A
The Biden puppet just gave a speech, ostensibly directed at everyone, and ostensibly directed at Republicans, but actually directed at the radicals, telling them to cool it. Google failed to commemorate black history month. The immanent eschaton has strangely been postponed. Lawfare against Trump and Musk is quietly being dropped, albeit there is still a …
Microsoft turns off the past
For a very long time I have been using a very old windows tool, abandonware, but there is no replacement for it. I use it to keep a very large pile of structured data and metadata about sensitive information. And this tool suddenly stopped working. After playing around a bit, I came to suspect that …